Musumba

{{Infobox settlement

| name = Musumba

| other_name = Musumbu{{Cite web|title=Musumba, Lualaba, Democratic Republic of the Congo|url=https://www.mindat.org/feature-207889.html|url-status=live|access-date=2021-07-24|website=Mindat.org|archive-date=2021-07-25|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210725005933/https://www.mindat.org/feature-207889.html}}

| settlement_type = City

| subdivision_type = Country

| subdivision_name = Democratic Republic of the Congo

| subdivision_type1 = Province

| subdivision_name1 = Lualaba

| coordinates = {{Coord|8|21|41|S|22|38|32|E}}

}}

Musumba is a city in Lualaba Province in the Democratic Republic of Congo.{{Cite web|title=Musumba, Lualaba, Democratic Republic of the Congo|url=https://www.mindat.org/feature-207889.html|url-status=live|access-date=2021-07-24|website=Mindat.org|archive-date=2021-07-25|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210725005934/https://www.mindat.org/feature-207889.html}} It is the capital of the Kingdom of Lunda.{{Cite book|last=Gondola|first=Ch. Didier|title=The History of Congo|publisher=Greenwood Press|year=2002|isbn=9780313316968|pages=|chapter=}}{{Rp|39}}{{Cite journal|last=Van Damme|first=Patrick|date=2017|title=Les Lunda - The Lunda République Démocratique du Congo - Democratic Republic of the Congo|url=|journal=Afrika Focus|volume=30|issue=1|pages=170–172|id={{ProQuest|1951871993}}|via=ProQuest}} The practices of the Lunda kingdom still persist in Musumba.

Musumba was the birthplace of Moïse Tshombe, a Congolese businessman and politician.{{Rp|193}}{{Cite book|last=Sloan|first=Ruth|url=|title=Education|publisher=University of Pennsylvania Press|year=1961|isbn=978-1-5128-1706-5|editor-last=Huus|editor-first=Helen|pages=137|language=en|chapter=Potential for Leadership in Africa Today|doi=10.9783/9781512817065-012|chapter-url=https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.9783/9781512817065-012/html|access-date=2021-07-25|archive-date=2021-07-25|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210725005950/https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.9783/9781512817065-012/html|url-status=live}}